Means for securing rows of pearls or the like



Oct. 18, 1927. 1,646,289

A. HADLEY MEANS FOR SECURING ROWS OF PEARLS OR THE LIKE Fild Aim. 6,1925 TIE-.1-

Patented Oct. 18, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ART HADLEY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE HADLEY COMPANY,

OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

MEANS FOR SECURING ROWS F PEARLS OR THE LIKE.

Application filed August 6, 1926.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in meansfor securing rows of pearls or the like, and the primary object thereofis to provide improved means 5. for securing rows or strands of pearls,beads, ornaments or thelike onto an attaching member. r

A further object of the invention is to provide means of the type setforth, which is of simple and economical construction,

and which enables the pearls or the like to be easily and quicklysecured onto an attaching member and effectively held in position,without the use of extraneous or mo able fastenings.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a plan view of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detailview of the attaching car of an end hook for wristwatch bracelets,

in connection with which latter the invention is illustrated by way ofexample;

Fig. 4 is a section on line H of Fig. 1 and Fig. 5 is a detailperspective View of the attaching bar. 7

In proceeding in accordance with the present invention, a bar body 1 isprovided which has cylindrical pintles 2 at its ends, the bar beingformed of a sheet or plate of metal rolled, bent or curled into tubularform to provide pintles 2 and radial lips 3. The body is laterallyperforated at 4. according to the number of strands of pearls 5 that areto be secured. The pearls or other ornaments are threaded or strung onsilk threads or chains 6 and the free ends of the latter are then passedthrough the perforations or passages 4; so as to'lie within the 40 bodyand between the lips whereupon thelips are pinched or compressed so asto frictionally grip the threads 6 and thus firmly secure or anchor thethreads to the bar.

In the drawings, an end hook 7 having.

Serial No. 127,609.

bendable cars is illustrated in connection with one use to which theinvention may be put, the ears being first spread to aline the pintles 2with their perforations, following which theears are bent into'theposition illustrated in the drawings, thus supporting the pintles forfree pivotal movement.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that no movable or extraneous parts,are em-.

ployed in securing the strandsor pearls or the like to the lips 3, andwhile the latter is shown attached to an end hook, it will be understoodthat such illustration is purely by way of example."

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new anddesire tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. A connector for strings of pearls and thelike composed of a hollow barhaving a laterally perforated body, a pairof lips extending outwardly from the body, and strings having pearlsthereon and having one end passed through the perforations and receivedbetween the lips, the lips being common to all of the strings andcompressed to frictionally and simultaneously engage and hold all ofsaid string ends therebetween.

2. A connector for strings of ornaments composed of a hollow body havinga'series of perforations along a side thereof, and

having a pair of' spaced opposed parts at the opposite sideof the bodyand with the space between said parts alined with the perforations, andornament-carrying strings having one end thereof extending through theperforations and received in the space between said parts, said partsbeing common to all of the strings and being compressed to frictionallyand simultaneously, engage and hold all of the string ends therebetween.

, In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification. M

, ART HADLEY.

